Numbers of COVID-19 cases have slipped down this week.
From Jan. 25 through Jan. 31, the university reported 60 cases of COVID-19 – 54 students, six staff, and zero faculty. Of the students, 78 percent lived off campus. That’s down from 71 cases last week.
Four residential students who have tested positive are isolated in campus housing and another 18 who have been exposed to someone with the virus are in quarantine on campus.
Since the start of the spring semester on Jan. 11, 196 cases have been reported.
During this period the university conducted 954 tests of both symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals. Of those 51 tested positive, a 5.3-percent positivity rate, compared to a 12-percent statewide positivity rate.
Since the beginning of the semester 6,629 tests have been conducted with 285 individuals testing positive, a 4.3-percent positivity rate.
